Posts Tagged ‘markup’

All languages need constant revision, updating and expansion. As we move closer to a unified and cohesive semantic web, HTML is growing by the day to include new things. The latest complete overhaul is currently being developed and many representatives from Apple (Safari), Mozilla (Firefox), Opera and Microsoft (Internet Explorer) are being included in talks.
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Image heavy websites have one problem: load time. So if you’re designing a Wordpress theme that relies heavily on images like one made in Photoshop, you want to do everything you can to increase speed. a) You want the images to display as shortly after the text does as possible and b) you want to do everything to help users on slower connections.

One way to do this is with javascript, the other way is with CSS.

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We’ve just started our first Wordpress theme! In Part 1 and Part 2 we reviewed some techniques that will allow our design to be marked up to XHTML. In this lesson you’ll learn exactly how to do this and why it isn’t exactly as easy as it seems.

Photoshop to XHTML in 24 Hours

So we’ve all seen those ads for websites that say they can “Photoshop to XHTML/CSS in X Ammount of time” right? No? well here’s 39 of them. What exactly are these service doing that you can’t as the theme designer? Nothing. If you feel so inclined, save yourself the fee (usually around $100 or so dollars) and do it yourself!

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